TEL AVIV - Israeli Premier Benyamin Netanyahu on Tuesday told Israel's military radio that the attitude towards Israel has changed in some sectors of the Arab world ''due to the understanding that we are not its enemies but instead potential allies'' against Iran and ISIS.
He added that Arab countries could potentially urge Palestinians to forge an agreement with Israel. The Palestinians, according to Netanyahu, are at this time still ''prisoners'' of their preconceptions denying Israel's legitimacy. The absence of peace - he noted - should be blamed on this Palestinian stance and not on Israel's control over the Territories or settlement construction: ''There were neither before 1967 but they tried to get us out of Tel Aviv and Jaffa''.
Netanyahu then observed that if Israel were to lose military control of the West Bank it could become a ''missile launch ramp'' towards the Israeli coast.